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Anonymous FTP
An option in File Transfer Protocol (FTP) that allows you to connect
to an FTP site, search through available files, and download any
file, document, or program without having to establish an account
(a username and password) on the system where the material resides.
Most FTP servers allow a limited amount of anonymous FTP users to
login at the same time and access only designated files.
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Apache Web Server
Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since
April of 1996. The July 2003 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that
63% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache,
thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.
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Autoresponder (Vacation Autoresponder)
Automatically responds to incoming email messages with a predetermined
response. Vacation Autoresponder creates automated email responses
that replies to incoming email messages during times when the user
is not available to check and reply to email messages. This feature
is most commonly used when a user intends to be unavailable for
an extended period of time
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Bandwidth / Data Transfer
The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of
time or the amount of traffic on a Web site
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Control Panel
Our Control Panel gives administrators& users easy access to
their web page settings. From the control panel, one can easily
check their eMail, manage the SQL database, add & delete users/aliases/eMail
accounts, create Auto Responders, Vacation Messages, set user privileges,
use the online File Transfer, and much more.
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Cron Jobs
A Unix command for scheduling jobs to be executed sometime in the
future. A cron is normally used to schedule a job that is executed
periodically - for example, to send out a notice every morning.
It is also a daemon process, meaning that it runs continuously,
waiting for specific events to occur.
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DNS
DNS (Domain name System) is a system that translates a domain name
from letters (www.DomainName.com) into a numerical IP address 123.45.678.90
Each time you register a domain name you must specify your DNS (Domain
Name Server) )information. If you register a domain name through
LessHost.com, you can use our DNS free of charge!
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DNS parking
When someone registers a domain name, does not develop it into a
Web site, but just sits on it (and keeps paying the annual fees),
the domain is said to be "parked." Web hosting companies
offer to "hold" specific domain names as a service to
their customers. It is referred to as "parking" because
once the hosting company registers the domain name
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eMail Forwarding
The process of redirecting your incoming mail to a different mailbox.
For example, if you have a number of e-mail addresses, you can have
them forwarded to a single mailbox. This makes it easier to retrieve
and manage your messages.
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CGI
A standard script for running programs on a server from a Web page.
CGI programs (also called scripts) can be run independently and
were designed to be external so they can run under various (possibly
different) servers interchangeably. The most common CGI scripts
found on the Web are programs that process the information a user
enters on a form.
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Microsoft FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions
Allows you to support customers who want to use Microsoft FrontPage
to manage their Web sites.In WEBppliance, you can access FrontPage
administration Web pages from the Apache Web Server Manager (as
the Site Administrator).
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FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
The standard method for downloading and uploading files over the
Internet. With FTP, you can login to a server and transfer files
(meaning you can "send" or "receive" files).
Some sites have public file archives that you can access by using
FTP with the account name "anonymous" and your e-mail
address as the password. This type of access is called anonymous
FTP. Macintosh owners use a program called Fetch; one of the best
FTP programs for Windows is called WS-FTP.
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Majordomo Mailing List Server
Manages mailing lists. Mailing lists are commonly used to circulate
topic discussions. A mailing list includes a set of list members.
Whenever a list member posts an email message to the mailing list
email address, that email message is distributed to all list members.
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Miva Merchant
Miva Merchant is a dynamic browser based storefront development
and management system that allows merchants to create and administrate
multiple online stores from anywhere in the world.
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Modperl for Apache
Modperl is a Perl interpreter embedded in your web server.
Modperl enables you to process and write CGI scripts. Modperl uses
Perl (Practical Extraction and Report Language) to process text
and enable the user to write CGI scripts. Perl is an interpretive
programming language, making it ideal for building and testing simple
programs.
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Monthly Fee
All our customers are billed monthly through our billing provider
PayPal.
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Money Back Guarantee
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network backed by a 99.9% uptime guarantee
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MySQL
Pronounced (my ess cue el) (each letter separately). MySQL is an
open source RDBMS that relies on SQL for processing the data in
the database. MySQL provides APIs for the languages C, C++, Eiffel,
Java, Perl, PHP and Python
MySQL is most commonly used for Web applications and for embedded
applications and has become a popular alternative to proprietary
database systems because of its speed and reliability. MySQL can
run on UNIX, Windows and Mac OS.
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PHP
PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is
especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
Primarily for use on Linux Web servers.
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phpMyAdmin
Web Based MySQL Administration
Allows you to manage your SQL databases over the Internet. phpMyAdmin
can handle administering entire MySQL database servers or just a
single database over the Internet by removing any platform-specific
limitations.
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PERL
Practical Extraction and Report Language
script programming language used to process text. It runs on many
platforms (including Windows and Macintosh) and is installed on
most Unix workstations. It is available for free and allows Web
developers to quickly write code or perform system administration
tasks.
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POP3 Accounts
Post Office Protocol version 3 is a protocol used by mail clients
to retrieve messages from a mail server. Processes incoming mail.
POP3 (Post Office Protocol, version 3) and IMAP (Internet Messaging
Access Protocol) mail servers store incoming email messages until
users download them to their computers. In addition to storing incoming
email messages, the IMAP server allows users to archive email messages
in folders, share mailboxes with other users, access multiple mail
servers at one time, and more efficiently access email attachments.
Both POP and IMAP mail servers accept SMTP-formatted email messages.
All eMails are accessible through a mail client. i.e. Microsoft
Outlook
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Premium Support
We provide all our members with premium support - 24 x 7 x 365.
Along with our online help system, we also have detailed help
files & flash tutorials
to help you manage your new server.
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proFTPd FTP Server
Transfers files over the Internet.FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows
you to transfer files across the Internet. Anonymous FTP allows
you to use an FTP site without a password and without creating a
user account.
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Python
Enables you to write system utility programs and scripts. Python
is a popular, object-oriented, interpretive scripting language used
for writing system utilities and Internet scripts.
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Search Engine Optimization
Tutorials to help optimize your site and Submit your site to major
search engines
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SSI
Server Side Include
A type of HTML comment that directs the Web server to dynamically
generate data for the Web page whenever it is requested. SSIs can
also be used to execute programs and to insert the results, and
this makes them a powerful tool for Web developers.
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SSL
Secured Sockets Layer
A protocol that delivers server authentication, data encryption,
and message integrity.
With SSL implemented on both the client and server, your Internet
communications are transmitted in encrypted form. Information you
send can be trusted to arrive privately and unaltered to the server
you specify (and no other).
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Tomcat 4
Tomcat is the servlet container that is used in the official
Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages
technologies
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Telnet
Provides remote access to another system over a network.
Telnet is a common terminal emulation protocol that connects computers
locally or across the Internet. It allows a user at a local computer
to log onto a remote computer and run a program.
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OpenSSH Secure Shell
Provides secure remote access to another system over a network.
SSH allows the user to log on remotely and move files from one system
to another in a secure environment. SSH can be a replacement for
telnet access.
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Setup Costs
Some companies will charge an additional fee for new accounts to
be setup. All of LessHost.com's accounts have zero
setup cost.
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Space
Disk Space refers to the amount of space you are assigned on the
web server. Contrary to what one might expect, the average Web Site
takes up less than 10 megs of space. In other words,
all our plans include a generous amount of web space.
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Urchin 4 Web Analytics Software
A huge advance in web analytics, combining datacenter-class
performance with elegant simplicity and the world's most accurate
unique visitor tracking.
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Web/FTP Log Analyzer
Measures the usage traffic on your Web and FTP servers. Web/FTP
Log Analyzer compiles statistics about which Web pages are most
popular, which countries people are visiting from, which Web site
visitors tried to follow broken links from, errors, and other such
information.
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Web-Based eMail
Our customers can read & write their eMail online. Very similar
to other online-based eMail services. i.e. hotmail
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Whois
An Internet utility program that obtains information (such as owner
and contact info) about a Domain name or IP number from the database
of a domain name registry. Our members can update their information
for free by logging into MyLessHost
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